Metal Jesus Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 Infocom crafted some of the best stories and characters in their 80s text adventures. I talk about two compilation sets that hold over 30+ games plus Leather Goddesses of Phobos. What do you think of Text Adventures? Did you play them back in the day...or still play them today? Which were your favorites? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 I LOVED THE INFOCOM ADVENTURES. Granted Scott Adams before that was great, but Infocom with the expanded word vocabulary was amazing. Zork was to me what Harry Potter was to kids lately. I ran around as an adventurer, and later with a cloak and sword at Renn Faires. It was the gateway to other things medieval and fantasy for me. But I love to collect infocom materials. Have a lot of the games. I love the props that came with them. Sometimes the packaging themselves (like Starcross) was a prop. Zork and Hitchhiker's Guide... maybe even Sea Stalker, were my favs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 (edited) Love them, at the moment I have 41 Infocom games (this includes Lost Treasures 1 and 2, Zork legacy collection, Mini Zork tape (C64), Zork the undiscovered Underground (freebie d/l), Cornerstone (didn't get far with this :-) and the NES game) . As previous mentioned, I loved the 'feelies', made you feel like you always got something special extra with those games. My faves are Cutthroats, Hollywood Hi Jinks, Moonmist, Plundered Hearts and Mines of Titan. Later on I absolutely loved Return to Zork. I also love the British Level 9 Computing, they had excellent A8 and C64 text adventures, almost on par with Infocom, and later of course, Magnetic Scrolls (The Pawn, Jinxter etc) BTW, I have Lost Treasures II on CD, which also includes Arthur, Shogun and Journey. Edited October 4, 2013 by high voltage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 I love Infocom adventures! I used to play them as a kid, then later I used Inform (an open source clone of the Z-Machine) on the PalmPilot. Now, there's an iPad app with all the games available in the App Store. I've been playing them on and off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cvga Posted October 5, 2013 Share Posted October 5, 2013 I loved text adventures from the time I got my first Scott Adam's game for the Vic 20 (I think it was 'The Count'). Later I loved playing Zork and other great Infocom games. I was fascinated by the stories, the superb material that came with the games, and the Infocom dry sense of humor. I have a Zorkmid laying around here somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cvga Posted October 5, 2013 Share Posted October 5, 2013 Forgot to mention that I had the pleasure of eating dinner with Scott Adams in Milwaukee at the Midwest Classic in 2012. He and his wife graciously answered questions from about 8 of us while we ate. He is an incredibly nice and humble guy. I got a chance to meet his (probably about 20 year old) daughter the next day and she told me that didn't even realize he had been popular until that weekend! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGQuarterly Posted October 5, 2013 Share Posted October 5, 2013 Awesome. I just picked up the Zork Anthology disc at a thrift this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karokoenig Posted October 5, 2013 Share Posted October 5, 2013 Love old text adventures. I don't find the time to play some of them recently, but I still stay in touch with the scene, mostly via Jacob Gunness's site and forum (www.solutionarchive.com). Great site with loads of information about text adventures on practically any system there was/is. And a forum where people still play the games, and help each other when they get stuck. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanrunomad Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 Nice video. I own several Infocom games. I recently acquired a very early text adventure from 1977! Takes place in the "future" (2000). You survived a nuclear explosition destroying most of mankind and now have to survive the existing creatures and elements. Here's the infocom titles I currently own: Arthur: The Quest for ExcaliburBeyond ZorkBorderzoneDeadlineEnchanterInfidelLeather Goddess of PhobosNord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of ItSherlock: The Riddle of the Crown JewelsThe Hitchhikers Guide to the GalaxyZork IZork Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimerians Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 I liked them a lot, played them since the mid 80's with Zork, The Hobbit, Magnetic Scrolls (really cool graphics at the time) and others on the C64....later I still played them on the PC. I have a number of boxes and compilations including the Lost Treasures box which are the best collections you can find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuckleCat Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 Zork 2 was the first computer game I ever had. I got the Infocom Collection for iOS, and it's pretty kickass. For like 10 buncks you get just about every game. It also comes with maps, the cluebooks, and shows you most of the "feelies" that came with the games in a 3d view, where you can spin them about and zoom in on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cvga Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 I liked them a lot, played them since the mid 80's with Zork, The Hobbit, Magnetic Scrolls (really cool graphics at the time) and others on the C64....later I still played them on the PC. I have a number of boxes and compilations including the Lost Treasures box which are the best collections you can find. I played mine on the C64 also. I recently picked up a bunch of old text adventures/mysteries locally that I'm anxious to try this winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 I've got all those games in the collections that are pictured in the video in the first post for my PC and also a number of them in Atari ST, Atari 8-bit, and Coleco ADAM CP/M format. Still fun to play, but with the exception of only a few I never get very far in them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 I have this weird obsession with playing Infocom games on every computer I own. The last computer I did this with was the Adam, just because I could (it's sloooow though). I only collect them for the Apple II which was my original platform. Beyond Zork is my favorite game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 I really need to make something like that one hack of the B-interpreter to ProDOS, just with better error checking and using the M-interpreter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_ Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Zork was one of the 1st computer games we used to play on the PC my dad had at home for work. I recently played through on the Apple IIc. I also like the way it was adapted to the 32 column text screen in the trs-80 coco version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 I really did like these text games as a kid. It started with Scott Adams games on the VIC 20, and moved on to the Infocom games on the C64. Leather Goddesses was a fav, as was Lurking Horror. I think I still have all the swag that came in the game. Does anyone recall the LGoP used to come with a scratch and sniff card? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karokoenig Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 (edited) As a kid or young adult, I didn't speak english very well. That held me back when it came to the intricacies of Infocom games, as you can imagine. German language adventure games were rare and mostly much less sophisticated. But it was a start :-). Edited October 8, 2013 by karokoenig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Jesus Posted October 8, 2013 Author Share Posted October 8, 2013 Does anyone recall the LGoP used to come with a scratch and sniff card? I show the scratch & sniff card and other feelies at the end of the video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Way back I sneaked up from behind to my wife sitting at her PC and I threw the centipede onto her monitor screen. Never heard my wife screech so loud and jumping out of her chair so quick. I laughed...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 I show the scratch & sniff card and other feelies at the end of the video. I went back and watched the whole video. Very cool you kept everything. i think I have all the swag from LGOP, but unfortunately threw the box away at some point. One thing I recall about Lurking Horror was that it came with a little rubber creepy bug. LOL Opening the boxes of these games was sometimes just as fun as playing the game! Too bad the bug didn't make it into the list of "feelies" they included with the compilation disks! BTW for those interested in trying out some of these games.... http://pot.home.xs4all.nl/infocom/ It's a cool site, but marred by the fact you can't save your game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Infocom - yeah! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Jesus Posted October 9, 2013 Author Share Posted October 9, 2013 Infocom - yeah! infocom.jpg Wow! Great collection! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSA Starfire Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. I loved this, played it for hours at work on Amstrad PCW 9512. It was great, as no one noticed, it looked just like the word processing I was actually being paid for! And who doesn't love Douglas Adams?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanrunomad Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 It's the original unique packaging that made Infocom stand out on the shelves. Like this one on ebay right now: http://www.ebay.com/itm/161119786067 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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